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- Richard K. Sherwin
Richard K. Sherwin, Professor of Law and Director of the Visual Persuasion Project at New York Law School, is the author of Visualizing Law in the Age of the Digital Baroque: Arabesques & Entanglements and When Law Goes Pop: The Vanishing Line between Law and Popular Culture.
NEW YORK – On October 3, [...]
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AFP – Myanmar frees scores of political prisoners
AFP – Michelle Yeoh, Luc Besson laud Myanmar releases
Reuters – Prominent monk freed in Myanmar prisoner amnesty
Reuters – Prominent Myanmar monk still jailed
BBC News – Burma frees dozens of political prisoners
Washington Post – Myanmar releases some prominent political prisoners in amnesty, but [...]
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PDF – _611_ Worth for Waiting
Worth for waiting ??????????????????????
Ko Ko Aung (San Francisco)
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PDF – _610_ Wish You All Can See the Truth
Wish you all can see the Truth ????????????????
Ko Ko Aung (San Francisco)
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AFP – Myanmar to free thousands of prisoners: media
AFP – US hopes for breakthrough on Myanmar
Reuters – India courts Myanmar, Vietnam amid China tension
Reuters – Western oil groups eye Myanmar changes cautiously
Reuters – Factbox – Sanctions imposed on Myanmar
Asian Correspondent – Burma announced to free 6,359 prisoners, but how many [...]
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FBR REPORT: Karen State, Burma 7 October, 2011
KEY DEVELOPMENTS
Free Burma Ranger teams in Southern Karen State (Tenasserim Division) graduated from Leadership and Relief Team [...]
Posted in Burma News on Oct 11th, 2011 No Comments »
By DVB Published: 11 October 2011
Image shows the announcement that 6359 prisoners will walk free being read out on state-run MRTV.
Burmese state media announced today that 6,359 prisoners will be released tomorrow, although the number of those deemed to be ‘political’ prisoners that are included remains unclear.
A statement read out on [...]
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- Dani Rodrik
Dani Rodrik, Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard University, is the author of The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy.
CAMBRIDGE – Next year will mark the 100th anniversary of Milton Friedman’s birth. Friedman was one of the twentieth century’s leading economists, a Nobel Prize winner who [...]
Posted in Feature Articles on Oct 11th, 2011 2 Comments »
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Harn Yawnghwe is the son of Sao Shwe Thaike, who was the last hereditary ruler of the Shan principality of Yawnghwe and the first president of the Republic of the Union of Burma. He was born on April 15, 1948, four months after Burma became an independent nation. [...]
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PDF – _609_ Friend in Need is Friend Indeed
Friend in need is friend indeed ???????????????????????????
Ko Ko Aung (San Francisco)
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PDF – _608_ the End of the Life Cycle
?????????????? Ko Ko Aung (San Francisco)
Posted in WORLD Digest on Oct 10th, 2011 No Comments »
- Javier Solana
Javier Solana, the EU’s former High Representative for the common foreign and security policy and a former Secretary General of NATO, is President of ESADEgeo Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics.
MADRID – On October 2nd in Istanbul, Syria’s disparate opposition movements gave the go-ahead for the formation of a [...]
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- Shashi Tharoor
Shashi Tharoor, a former Indian Minister of State for External Affairs and UN Under-Secretary General, is a member of India’s parliament and the author of a dozen books, including India from Midnight to the Millennium and Nehru: the Invention of India.
NEW DELHI – When the Commonwealth heads of government meet in [...]
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AP – China, Myanmar to discuss suspended dam project
Reuters – China urges protective steps after 13 killed on Mekong
AFP – Myanmar seeing ‘dramatic developments’: US official
IANS – Myanmar president to visit India
Washington Post – Senior US diplomat says Washington will respond to liberalization moves by Myanmar
IRIN – MYANMAR: Landmines take toll [...]
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Please find attached EBO’s 28th Political Monitor report.
PMNo.28-10-10-11
All Political and Election Monitors as well as other information on the 2010 elections can be found on EBO’s Elections Page.
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TaiFreedom
Thursday, 06 October 2011 20:42 On 17 August, Burmese IB 114 led by Maj.Than Htay Aung, which is active in Kaesi area for three months, detained a 31-year old villager, Sai Hkam Ku son of Loon Htoon Aung of Wan Kune village, Hka Warn village tract, Kaesi Township and [...]
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AFP – Myanmar censorship chief ‘calls for press freedom’
Reuters – China paper defends Myanmar investment
Asian Correspondent – Can press freedom be a reality in Burma?
The Nation – Burma sets scene for opposition party comeback
Washington Post – Burma showing signs of reforms
Channel NewsAsia – Myanmar risks Chinese anger to woo [...]
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BURMA: Release of political prisoners could speed up democratic transformation
Monday, 10 October 2011 14:19 Khio Fah
By: Sai Wansai
Monday, 10 October 2011
Amid euphoria that Naypyidaw is on its way to irreversible democratisation process through implementation of recent reform initiative is heartening but still fails to touch the [...]